Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down’ James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger’s motives?Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
Additional information
Weight | 0.228 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.1 × 11.1 × 18.1 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 416 |
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Year Published | 2020-4-30 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0141988509 |
About The Author | Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York. |
I love this book . . . reading it will actually change not just how you see strangers, but how you look at yourself, the news – the world. Reading this book changed me. |
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Other text | Fascinating . . . you should read the book . . . He's tackling the dark side of human nature – what do we ever know about other people? |
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